Classify | Devpost

✨ Inspiration

Let's be real, trying to figure out courses at UCR (and tbh, most unis 😬) is kinda a hot mess 🔥. Info is scattered everywhere, some departments are gatekeeping 🤫, and the stuff you do find is confusing af. Trying to plan your 4-year sched? Especially as a freshman? Good luck, fam 😩. We were tired of the stress, so we decided to build something to fix it. ✌️ It's the disorganization and the struggle to plan that really got us wanting to create Classify.

🚀 What it does

Meet Classify! ✨ Your new academic BFF. It's got this super smart AI Chatbot 🤖 – just tell it what courses you've slayed so far, and it'll recommend what's next on your academic glow-up journey. But wait, there's more! 💅 It doesn't just list courses; it maps them out in a visually stunning ✨ prerequisite flowchart. It's interactive too! Click on any course bubble to get the lowdown (course description, units, etc.). Planning just got a major level up. 🚀

🛠️ How we built it

We cooked this up with some cool tech! 🧑‍💻 Here's the stack:

Next.js ⚡️ (Frontend & Backend vibes)
React ⚛️ (Making the UI pop)
TypeScript ⌨️ (Keeping our code clean)
Tailwind CSS 🌬️ (For that ✨aesthetic✨ styling)
shadcn/ui 🎨 (Sweet pre-built components)
Google Gemini AI 🧠✨ (The brains behind the chatbot)
React Flow 🌊 (Making those flowcharts flow)

😭 Challenges we ran into

Ngl, the struggle was real sometimes 😅.

Data Hunt: Hunting down course data scattered across random UCR websites felt like a treasure hunt gone wrong 🗺️❌. Seriously, why is it hidden like that?!
Schema Drama: Figuring out how to organize all that inconsistent data (the schema) gave us major headaches 🤯.
Flowchart Boss Battle: Don't even get us started on making the prerequisite flowchart algorithm actually work and display everything correctly – that was a whole boss battle! 👾 Getting those lines and prereqs to look good and be accurate took some serious brainpower.

🎉 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Honestly, we kinda slayed this? 💅 We're super proud of:

Building a fully functional full-stack web app 💻 that actually works!
Doing it with just two people in literally 24 hours 🤯. The grind was intense!
Surviving on basically zero sleep ☕️🚫💤.
Still managing to have a blast doing hackathon side quests like karaoke 🎤😂. It's about the journey, right?
Mad props to the team! 🙌

🧠 What we learned

This hackathon was a crash course! 🎢 We definitely:

Leveled up our full-stack skills (shoutout Next.js!).
Learned a lot about wrangling messy, real-world data 🧹 (turns out uni websites aren't perfect APIs lol).
Flexed our algorithm design muscles 💪 making that flowchart logic happen.
Mastered the art of teamwork under extreme pressure and caffeine fumes. Legendary skills unlocked. ✨
Confirmed that karaoke breaks are, in fact, essential for survival. 😉

🔮 What's next for Classify

Classify is just getting started! 🤩 We've got big plans:

Sentiment Analysis: Adding personalization by checking course sentiment (using RAG on Rate My Professor & Reddit data 📝) – should you really take that class? 🤔
RAG Implementation: Diving deeper into Retrieval-Augmented Generation for even smarter, context-aware chat responses.
Viz Glow-Up: Making the flowchart visualization even more ✨aesthetic✨ and customizable.
Sharing is Caring: Letting users share their dope schedules with friends 🤝.
World Domination (jk... kinda): Expanding Classify to support more universities! 🌍 Get ready. 😉